[Python-3000] __format__ and datetime

[Guido van Rossum]

Right. It's odd that there's nothing explicit that exactly produces
the default. (Though floats have this issue too -- I wish it could be
fixed there too.)

On 9/10/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Paul> The date and time defaults (which appear to be %Y-%m-%d and
>     Paul> %H:%M:%s) seem perfectly acceptable, on the other hand.
>
> I would like to see an analog to %S which preserves fractions of a second as
> the default formatting for time and datetime objects does:
>
>     >>> print(now)
>     2007-09-10 22:07:53.654774
>     >>> print(now.strftime("%H:%M:%S"))
>     22:07:53
>     >>> print(now.time())
>     22:07:53.654774
>
> Skip
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